American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Mitsuo Fuchida (December 3, 1902-May 30, 1976) was a Captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and a Imperial Japanese Navy flying ace pilot before and during World War II. He is perhaps best known for leading the first air wave attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, shouting the war cry, "Tora, Tora, Tora!" Fuchida was responsible for the coordination of the entire aerial attack working under the overall fleet Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. After World War II ended, Fuchida became a Christian in 1950 and an evangelist preacher. In 1960 he became an American citizen. His...

Andre' Malraux (November 3, 1901-November 23, 1976) was a French novelist and essayist. He was involved in the civil strife in China in the 1920's, the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War and the French Resistance during World War II, being captured twice by the Nazi's. He served as minister of information, 1945-46; and minister of cultural affairs, 1959-69, under President Charles de Gaulle. His works include: The Temptation of the West, 1926; The Conquerors; The Human Condition; The Royal Way; Man's Fate, 1933; Man's Hope, 1937; Voices of Silence, 1951; and Museum without Walls, 1967. In his volume...

(Jay David) Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901-July 9, 1961) was an American journalist who had formerly been a Communist agent. He recanted and defected to the West. Whittaker Chambers stated: <Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible....

Tom Campbell Clark (September 23, 1899-June 13, 1977) was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1949-67, having been appointed by President Truman. He was circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 1967-77; and U.S. Attorney General, 1945-49, a position held later by his son, Ramsey Clark. Justice Tom Campbell Clark stated: <The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted-not in the state, nor the legislature, nor in any other human power-but in God alone.> 1899TC001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved,...

Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899-July 2, 1961) was an American author who exerted a profound influence on American writers. He served in an American volunteer ambulance unit in France and Italy during World War I. Following the war he was the European correspondent for the Torono Star, and later the Paris correspondent for the Syndicated News Service. He reported on the Spanish Civil War, 1937-1938, and during World War II was a war correspondent on the Western Front, 1944-1945. His works include: Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923); In Our Time (1924); The Sun Also Rises (1926); The Torrents of...